This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won’t tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole unavailable to the outside world and everything shared is a privacy nightmare. Posting this, pinning it here, and locking it is one of the biggest trolls possible. It pisses me off every time I log in. “Everyone else does it” is the excuse of idiots. Discord makes absolutely no sense to anyone that actually cares to look into it, read the user agreement, and ask sane questions about what they are doing.
You can’t be seriously suggesting this while also knowing it’s against their TOS. It feels especially ironic giving the massive surge in Lemmy’s popularity was over a proprietary backend blocking third party clients.
That’s what surprised me the most.
Lemmy members using Discord feels like a vegetarian not eating chicken but enjoying beef.
People use different platforms for different reasons.
I personally use Lemmy because it’s currently the best alternative to Reddit. I use Discord because it’s the most popular instant messaging platform, and I haven’t had issues with it. I’m currently looking for a replacement for Twitter/X as I’m not confident with the way that platform is headed.
Mastodon
Yep, one of the platforms I’m looking at, and seems to be the second best contender for me. Tumblr of all places is where I’m feeling most at home
Then I guess someone should come up with a discord alternative… No? Nobody?.. Anything at all?..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
matrix.org has existed for many years now. Federated and completely FOSS.
Anything, anything at all
I’ve been using it with my friends since 2015. You being unwilling to try it, or just purposefully dense and dismissive isn’t my problem.